Ellie

Ellie is growing up, and while she has always been fiercely independent, she has added being helpful to her repertoire. She saved her allowance money to buy a "big girl" magazine a few weeks ago and then pulled a recipe out of it to make us all dinner. She wrote the ingredients that we needed down on our shopping list, helped me to find them at the supermarket, and then assembled it all on her own for dinner.  

All the girls have wrapped up their netball seasons. Meggie's team had a great time playing together but it wasn't exactly a winning season. In fact they didn't win any games, but they had surprisingly good attitudes. It's the first time she has played on a graded team and most of the other girls on her team were inexperienced. Katie's team finished fantastically well in first place. She played well and her coach commended her for it and said she was one of the best players on the team. Josie's team also had a lot of fun - for them it was a steep learning curve as it is the first year any of them have played games. A few of the girls had participated in Fun Ferns (which is what Ellie did, Fun Ferns is a skill building course for younger kids) but most of them were brand-new to the sport, including Jo. They had more losses than wins but they learned a lot and had great team spirit. Finally Miss Ellie loved her time with the Fun Ferns, she was fearless (of course) and will probably develop into a very good player if she chooses to continue. Here's a 10-second video from my phone, Ellie is in the striped dress.

We had a lovely family weekend recently and I will post pictures soon. Hugs to all!